Quote of the Day

" It is truly sad that at a time when gas prices are at a record high Democrats are willing to place the interests of the eco-radicals ahead of American consumers. They also showed that, once again, they have no interest in creating jobs or cutting spending."

Erick Erickson

Quote of the Day

#NewOccupyChants

“Our concept of rebelling! Is riots, rapes, and yelling!”

“We’re the 99%! With some cash the unions spent!”

“What’s the point behind this fad? Mostly to get back at Dad!”

“Two, four, six, eight! After that, our math’s not great!”

“Hey hey! Ho ho! This phase is one we might outgrow!”

“The people! United! Deluded and shortsighted!”

“99% are we! In our tents is where we pee!”

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Quotes of the Day

"Though today's job growth numbers are good news, it's the equivalent of winning a foot race with a cinder block strapped to your leg. Sure, you might cross the finish line, but you could get there a lot faster if you cut off the dead weight. America's economy is struggling to break free from the dead weight of debt, reckless spending, uncertainty, over-regulation, high taxes and a convoluted, counterproductive tax code."

The Heritage Foundation

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"The National Prayer Breakfast is an annual event that attracts over 3,000 people. Every U.S. president in recent decades has attended and spoken, and all of them have shed politics at the door. But not Barack Obama. 

Yesterday he shamelessly wrapped his left-wing socialist political agenda in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I don't think Obama wears glasses, but he clearly needs a pair. He has looked at Karl Marx and confused him with Jesus Christ."

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families

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"Liberals accuse us of trying to create a theocracy, when they're the ones trying to attach biblical significance to big government! The Left engages God when it's convenient, and draws a line between church and state when it isn't."

Tony Perkins

Family Research Council

"It's okay for Democrats to preach from the Gospel of Redistribution, but it is an affront to the Constitution when conservatives try to defend traditional values."

Gary Bauer
Campaign for Working Families

Quote of the Day

"Truly, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) belongs in a museum somewhere in an exhibit about what can happen when you elect Democrat majorities to the House, Senate and White House. Like so much else in the Democratic agenda (Dodd-Frank, environmental regulation, mortgage relief), it relies not on incentives, competition or patient choice but on blatant government coercion."

Mona Charen

Video Pick of the Day

Santa's List

Quote of the Day

"The message coming from mayors in numerous cities is that they are willing to spend millions in taxpayer money to accommodate the Occupiers that are breaking the law but have no problem charging Tea Party groups that follow the law exorbitant fees and making them jump through hoops to acquire permits.

The Richmond Tea Party stands for constitutional adherence, and clearly this has been unequal treatment under the law. We stand for fiscal restraint, and this is a case where a mayor used taxpayer money for his personal agenda. We stand for virtue and accountability in government and that is why we have taken a stand. We will be submitting a Virginia Freedom of Information Act request for all city correspondence pertaining to our Tea Party and its decision to audit us. We will not be intimidated and we will not back down. A Richmond attorney and fellow Tea Partier is currently reviewing our situation. Also, the ACLU has also contacted us inquiring about this matter."

Colleen Owens, Richmond Tea Party

Email of the Day

You Might Be A Wall Street Occupier, If:

1.  You moved to a tent in Zucotti Park because you always wanted a nicer place to live.

2.  You quit your “job” to attend the protests, but your mother continues your allowance 

and now does the dishes herself.

3.  You are confused that you can’t find the Wal-Mart on Wall Street.

4.  You are enraged that the taxpayers had to bail out Wall Street even though you’ve 

never paid taxes or know anyone who has.

5.  You hate capitalism but expect a capitalist to provide you a good paying job with great 

benefits.

6.  You think Socialism has something to do with Facebook, and Capitalism has to do with Washington, DC.

7.  You demand a job, forgetting that you were fired for not doing the one you had.

8.  You despise the rich even though they pay your share of taxes.

9.  You’re a little behind in your rent because your drug dealer insisted on cash.

10.  You are very clear in your protest objectives:

“Screw the USA”

“Save the ______ (fill in the blanks – whales, spotted owls, sturgeon)”

“Self-realization is the first step toward self-actualization”

“Down with … uh… everything!”

11.  You think 99 weeks of unemployment is the least the government should give you for the 

3 months you put in at McDonalds.

12.  You drove a Toyota to the protest, you’re plugged in to a Sony Walkman, talk over a Samsung phone, and play a Yamaha keyboard in a punk band, but you are incensed over jobs being outsourced to other countries.

13.  You demand your rights, but can’t quite recall where they are enumerated.

14.  You believe you have a right to every penny earned, but the rich do not, and you base your claim on equality.

15.  You believe a man is greedy if he worked his way up to CEO on 16-hour days, runs a company employing thousands, and made $10 million last year, but is not greedy if he made $50 million last year for making two motion pictures or shooting a ball through a hoop.

16.   You are convinced the “system” is holding you back from gaining wealth, status, and position.  Dropping out of high school, dulling your mind with crack and MJ, a few arrests on your record, and stealing from your employer had nothing to do with it.

17.   You left behind trash, feces, urine-soaked sod, discarded clothing, and used condoms after your “Save the Environment” protest.

18.   You know you’re not a Socialist because you stick pretty much to yourself at parties.

19.   You want to improve the environment and you have the tattoos and piercings to prove it.

20.   You don’t pay taxes, but somehow that’s more than your “fair share”.

21.   You hate the rich, but hope you win the lottery.

22.   You haven't bathed in over a month, but demand to be taken seriously.

23.   From the looks of it, "greening" the environment means starting with your teeth.

24.  You know your cause is just - because Nancy Pelosi admires you.

Quotes of the Day

"Voter fraud is real. It is an insult and an injury to our republic that it happens. There should be bi-partisan agreement to stop it. Unfortunately, the left's outrageous attacks against voter ID laws are more evidence of how deeply divided our nation has become. From Eric Holder's refusal to prosecute the New Black Panthers to the media's blindness to ACORN's corruption, Democrats and their liberal allies refuse to deal with it because voter fraud often benefits them! 

There is a solution: Every conservative must work even harder to make sure we win in a landslide. The left can't cheat if the results are not close."

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families

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"The media rarely admits that current government measures, such as nutritional charts and enforced labeling of fast food products, have proven singularly ineffective in combating obesity. Despite new government food measures over the past twenty-five years, the obesity rate has also risen. Of course, liberals argue the solution is simply more regulation.

The media glosses over the obvious cause of obesity - individual people choosing to eat too much and exercise too little. Personal responsibility is rarely discussed or encouraged. They'd much rather the government simply tax your Turkey and pumpkin pie."

Paul Wilson

Pelosi Wants to Unleash ObamaDayCare

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Fed!

If you liked ObamaCare, you'll love ObamaDayCare! According to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), nationalizing child care is next up on her list of government takeovers. In an interview with the Washington Post, she looks forward to "doing for child care what we did for health care." Raise your hands if the thought terrifies you! As a young mom, Pelosi said, "'I could never get a babysitter--have five kids in six years and no one wants to come to your house... And everywhere I go, women say the same thing' about how hard it is to find the kind of reliable care that would make their family lives calmer and work lives more productive. When it comes to 'unleashing women' in a way that would boost the economy, she says, 'this is the missing link.'"

Putting aside the exorbitant costs, let's stop and think for a minute what a Pelosi "nanny state" would look like. If ObamaCare is the prototype, will there be a mandate forcing parents to enroll their kids in government-run centers? Would a panel of bureaucrats dictate what kind of care your children receive? Would the government ration child care by funding more abortions? And I suppose the President will tell us that if we like our babysitter, we can keep her. Let's face it. The closest thing to parenting our government does is being the mother of all problems. Washington can't even do the jobs it has. Why let it barge in and take families'?

A child's parent is his best care provider. And that's not only the public's opinion--but researchers'. In the largest study on child care ever conducted, a 2007 team found that "the more time that kids spent in day care, the more likely their sixth grade teachers were to report problem behaviors such as getting in fights, being disobedient in school, and arguing a lot." As a society, the worst thing we could do is incentivize day care. If anything, Congress should embrace policies and reduced levels of government spending and taxation that would encourage and empower more parents to stay at home with their children. Even in stable economic times, those decisions require serious sacrifice on the part of most couples. But what families lack financially, they more than make up in the physical and emotional well-being of their children. In some situations, there simply isn't the flexibility for a parent to stay home--but that doesn't mean our government is the next-best substitute. Grandparents, neighbors, or church groups are far better options than Uncle Sam.

Besides, Americans have made it clear that they don't want a bureaucracy raising their kids. Nor do they want higher taxes, which forces moms who would rather be with their children into the workplace. They want tax relief and financial freedom so that they can provide the best care possible for their kids. And for that to happen, Washington will have to deliver on its promises to act responsibly and cut spending. In other words, what we really need isn't universal child care--but someone to babysit Congress!

Tony Perkins
Family Research Council

Quote of the Day

"So this is what the left has produced. Environmental alarmism has some folks convinced we're on the verge of mass extinction and that our lifestyle is to blame for global warming. How do they explain the fact that the planet was hotter before we had SUVs? How do they explain the warming that has been detected on Mars? 

They complain about a political system "perverted by money," but say nothing of union money or George Soros' money. They complain about high unemployment, but do they question the role of big government? No. Sadly, they go on to rail against corporations and job creators. 

And exactly who forced them to take out those "crippling student loans"? As for owning a home and living in comfort like their parents, they should learn from their parents, most of whom worked very hard and saved up a long time to buy a home they could afford."

Gary Bauer 

Campaign for Working Families

excerpt from "What Does OWS Want?"

Quote of the Day

"What have these folks already been sharing with other Occupiers they didn't know before? STD's, as you know.

Lately, though, they've been sharing lice! For the record, that's head AND body lice, thank you very much."

The Hammer

Red County

Quote of the Day

"Here we go again. They are coming back to Congress with their hands out, demanding billions more for yet another taxpayer bailout. To add insult to injury, their top executives are getting millions in bonus checks. 

It's another story tailor made for the Occupy Wall Street movement, but there is silence from Zuccotti Park. We have not heard a peep from Obama, and not one media elite is in high dudgeon. Why not? Because this isn't a story about big banks, but rather about big government. 

The government housing behemoths Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have already taken more than $160 billion in taxpayer bailouts. Last week, Freddie Mac announced it needed another $6 billion after it lost more than $4 billion in the last quarter. 

Yet, unbelievably, the agencies are paying out $13 million in bonuses to top executives who already make hefty salaries. Some of them will take home seven figure checks for losing billions of your hard-earned tax dollars! Where is the outrage from the left about this abuse of taxpayer resources?" 

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families

Quote of the Day

"You want jobs while demanding that the people who create jobs be taxed into oblivion and that every struggling company come under the thumb of a union. Hey dummy! Why do you think your I-pad was made in China and your designer jeans sewn together in Bangladesh? Are you sincerely that stupid? Do you ever entertain a rational thought?"

J. D. Pendry

Quote of the Day

"Ironically, for a movement based on fighting income inequality and fighting for jobs, the OWS crowd (just like Obama) is now costing jobs, in part because (just like Obama) it doesn't understand how jobs are created in the first place. 

Here's a hint: Jobs aren't created by people who sit around whining all day about how much other people owe them! They are created by men and women who work hard every day trying to provide a product or service for other people. For the all the talk about inequality, the OWS movement is really a very selfish group that seems to think society owes them something."

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families

Another Democrat Wall Street Scandal

MF Global, one of the largest hedge funds in America, filed for bankruptcy protection this week, after making a 40-to-1 leveraged bet on European debt. Now the FBI and the SEC are launching investigations in the wake of reports of possible fraud and violation of securities laws. 

This scandal is ready-made for the class warfare that the left and their media allies have been waging in recent months against conservatives, Wall Street and investors. As the story unfolds, one would think Occupy Wall Street would be on the march, but it isn't. Why hasn't Obama used this latest example of greed gone bad to launch another attack on the 1%? Where is the media frenzy? 

Here's why the silence is deafening: the chairman of MF Global, Jon Corzine, is a partisan liberal Democrat. Most Americans don't know that because in story after story big media have failed to report his political loyalties. 

Corzine previously worked for Goldman Sachs. Then he won a Senate seat in New Jersey by spending a record-breaking $60 million on his campaign. After one term he "bought" the governorship of the state, again breaking all records on spending. Throughout his career he has been a major contributor to the Democrat National Committee, the Clintons, Obama and various left-wing causes. Finally in 2010, Republican Chris Christie defeated Corzine, sending him back to Wall Street. 

Can you imagine how this story would be reported if Corzine were a conservative Republican? But Corzine is not an exception. Many of the worst "players" in the Wall Street/banking meltdown were loyal partisan Democrats. Most of them donated to Obama's 2008 campaign. 

Even today, as Obama and the Democrats rush to embrace the Occupy Wall Street movement, they continue to rake in most of Wall Street's political cash. Ponzi scheme operator Bernie Madoff was also a liberal Democrat, and a major contributor to the left-wing causes. And, of course, who can forget hedge-fund billionaire George Soros! 

Gary Bauer

Campaign for Working Families

Video Pick of the Day

Milton Friedman Owns Phil Donahue

Quotes of the Day

"...I just think that it is sad that they’re so short-sighted in really understanding what the whole Tea Party citizen movement is all about. I’m not offended by it, because it doesn't slow down my momentum. It doesn’t slow down the reaction that I get from people. They know that I bring my message from the heart and the head, and they’re responding to it. So, name calling is something that’s going to continue in this because they don’t know how to stop this movement. And this movement is making a big difference in politics, because a lot of the traditional Democrats are moving to the center or moving over to vote for conservatives. They’re taking another look at a Herman Cain."

Herman Cain

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"Former Democratic candidate for president John Edwards liked to lecture about two Americas: the privileged and the poor. But this quasi-Marxist theme does not describe the real two Americas: one,managed by "Experts," who believe they possess superior knowledge that translates into engineered regulations; and the other, common sense embodied by the common man."

Herbert London

Quote of the Day

"Americans are finally fed up with the Democrats' value system: no personal accountability; moral equivalence; belief that success is derived from exploiting everybody else; everybody else is a hapless victim; we are all racists and xenophobes, consigned to endless acts of contrition where reparations and open borders would be the only relief."

Geoffrey P. Hunt

Quote of the Day

"I'm deeply troubled by the comments reportedly made by the vice president yesterday regarding China's reprehensible one-child policy, which has resulted in forced sterilizations and coerced abortions and should not be condoned by any American official. No government on Earth has the authority to place quotas on the value of innocent human life, or to treat life as an economic commodity that can be regulated and taken away on a whim by the state.

"I hope and trust that the vice president didn't actually say what has been reported, and that a correction or clarification from the White House will be forthcoming. The Obama administration should be focusing on jobs for the American people, not encouraging foreign governments to utilize abortion as a means of population and deficit control."

Speaker John Boehner